Matagorda County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Marion John Wesley Banks, Matagorda County, Texas, 1867
Marion John Wesley Banks registered to vote in Matagorda County on August 20, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 16 years in Texas, 16 of them in Matagorda County. Matagorda County registered 174 freedmen in 1867, 23% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 16 years
- In Texas
- 16 years
- In the county
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
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In Matagorda County
Marion John Wesley Banks
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Marion John Wesley Banks
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Matagorda County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- August 20, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 16 years
- Years in Matagorda County
- 16 years
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
Other freedmen named Banks in Matagorda County
- Rice Banksborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1859
Bankses elsewhere in Texas
Sources
This entry comes from the 1867 to 1870 Texas voter registration, the Texas Secretary of State registration lists held by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. It sits on page 7 of the Matagorda County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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